Community Awareness Management Systems and Methods

• US 20080091461A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CeleritasWorks, LLC (RGS Senior Management Group, LC)
• Original Assignee: CeleritasWorks, LLC (RGS Senior Management Group, LC)
• Inventors: Evans, Scott, Marshall, Robert, Lester, Brett, Miley, Larry
• Granted Patent: US 7,856,407 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/205 Education administration or guidance

Abstract

A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link is defined between the CAM dataset and the spatial layer. The spatial layer and the linked CAM dataset then may be queried using a single input query. Features from the spatial layer and features from the linked CAM dataset that match the query are generated for display. In one embodiment, a system and method manage CAP assets, transactions, interest areas for the CAP, and buffer areas for the CAP. An audience utility enables entering and maintaining audience data for the CAP. A journal utility enables making journal entries for one or more audience members, CAP assets, transactions, and/or other CAM data. A link document utility enables linking one or more documents to CAM data.

Claims

1. A system for managing community awareness management (CAM) data comprising feature data for a community awareness program (CAP) and geospatial data for an area for the CAP, the feature data comprising audience data and CAP asset data, the system operable with at least one processor and further comprising a user interface configured to generate display elements corresponding to at least one query of the geospatial data and the feature data, the display elements comprising:

a map image comprising;

at least a portion of the area for the CAP;

in the CAP area portion, at least one CAP asset and at least one member of a group consisting of at least an interest area portion for the at least one CAP asset and at least a buffer area portion for the at least one CAP asset; and

in the CAP area portion, at least one point feature indicating a location of at least one audience member; and

a feature display frame configured to display selected feature data corresponding to the at least one query.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the feature data comprises audience data and pipeline data;

the CAP asset comprises a pipeline asset, the buffer area portion comprises a pipeline buffer area portion, and the interest area portion comprises a pipeline interest area portion; and

the user interface further is configured to generate the selected feature data comprising at least one second member of a second group consisting of at least some pipeline data and at least some audience data.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the CAP asset comprises at least one second member of a second group consisting of a utility asset and a call center asset;

the interest area portion comprises at least one third member of a third group consisting of a utility interest area portion and a call center interest area portion;

the buffer area portion comprises at least one fourth member of a fourth group consisting of a utility buffer area portion and a call center buffer area portion; and

the user interface further is configured to generate the selected feature data comprising at least one fifth member of a fifth group consisting of utility data and call center data.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the map image comprises the at least the buffer area portion, the user interface further is configured to generate a plurality of point features within the CAP area portion, each point feature indicating another location of at least one other audience member, and at least one of the plurality of point features is displayed within the buffer area portion.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the selected feature data comprises at least one second member of a second group consisting of buffer area data for the at least one CAP asset, interest area data for the at least one CAP asset, audience data for the at least one audience member, location data for the at least one CAP asset, other location data for the at least one audience member, journal data for the at least one CAP asset, other journal data for the at least one audience member, document data for the at least one CAP asset, other document data for the at least one audience member, audit data for the at least one CAP asset, and other audit data for the at least one audience member.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface is configured to generate a link document utility configured to enable linking document data to at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface is configured to enable entry of journal data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface is configured to enable entry of other audience data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset, the at least one audience member, and at least one other audience member.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate for display document data identifying at least one document associated with at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one audience member and the at least one CAP asset.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate for display at least one journal entry for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the map image comprises the at least the interest area portion, the user interface further is configured to generate a plurality of point features within the CAP area portion, each point feature indicating another location of at least one other audience member, and at least one of the plurality of point features is displayed within the interest area portion.

12. A system for managing community awareness management (CAM) data comprising feature data for a community awareness program (CAP) and geospatial data for an area for the CAP, the feature data comprising audience data for a plurality of audience members and CAP asset data, the system operable with at least one processor and comprising a user interface configured to receive an input and to generate display elements corresponding to at least one query of the geospatial data and the feature data based on the input, the display elements comprising:

a map image comprising;

at least a portion of the area for the CAP;

in the CAP area portion, at least one CAP asset portion and at least one other area portion selected from a group consisting of at least an interest area portion for the at least one CAP asset and at least a buffer area portion for the at least one CAP asset; and

a plurality of point features in the CAP area portion and displayed relative to the other area portion with at least one point feature within the other area portion, the plurality of point features indicating locations of at least some of the plurality of audience members; and

a feature display frame configured to display selected feature data corresponding to the at least one query, the selected feature data comprising at least one member of another group consisting of selected audience data and selected CAP asset data.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the user interface is configured to enable entry of some audience data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset, at least one of the plurality of audience members, and at least one new audience member.

14. The system of claim 12 wherein the user interface is configured to enable editing some audience data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset, the at least one of the plurality of audience members, and the at least one new audience member.

15. The system of claim 12 wherein the user interface is configured to enable entry of journal data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and at least one of the audience members.

16. The system of claim 12 wherein the feature data further comprises journal data, the selected feature data comprises selected journal data for at least one journal entry, and the user interface further is configured to generate the selected journal data for the at least one journal entry in the feature display frame.

17. The system of claim 12 wherein the input comprises at least one second member of a second group consisting of an address, a street, an intersection, a county, a zip code, a city, a state, a region, a location code, a SIC code, and a FIPS code.

18. The system of claim 12 wherein the input comprises at least one second member of a second group consisting of an audience type, a journal entry type, a company name, a phone number, and a contact name.

19. The system of claim 12 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate another map image with another portion of the area for the CAP and to accept a selection of the other map image as the input.